Last week, the City opened bids for the construction of Phase I of the Dedeaux Road Widening Project. The lowest bid came in less than $200,000 over the engineer’s estimate making the construction cost for the project $5.4 million.

This is a reasonable amount over the estimate and is being recommended by Mississippi Engineering Group (MSEG) and Gulfport City Engineer for approval.

The linked documents will be on the July 5 council agenda for approval.

This is a long awaited step forward and should keep us on target to visible progress (i.e., bulldozers moving dirt) later this year.